Tonya B Bott is Minister for Women!

[Korto]

Since no-one else is going to mention the Australian election (seriously, where is Ando these days, did he get his arse banned or something?), so, as a completely disinterested observer (like most of the Australian voting public), I might as well.

Well, to the amazement of no-one, the Coalition got voted in. While there is a truism in sport that you only play as game as well as the opposition let you, the Labor party didn't go out of its way to get elected. In fact, they were such a non-entity that Abbott started injecting realism into his promises before the vote was even held. Shit that was going to happen "The day he was voted in", then became "In the following days", and finally "By the end of our three-year term". Make life easier for him.

A few entertaining things. Climate Change no longer exists, so we don't need the Commission. Ministry of Science has been abolished, and it's job taken over by Industry (all the better to research digging holes in the ground, and absolutely no possibility of a conflict of interest with environmental science), and the Minister for Women's Affairs?

Tonya B Bott!
Oooops! Sorry! Typo!
Tony Abbott!
That's just fucking hilarious. That was so hilarious, I told my wife, just so I could see her face. That was so hilarious, it kept on being funny mentioning it to her for a good, solid, hour.
I can see political reasons for it. He got a lot of flak for his attitude towards women during the election, and I reckon he's figuring that if, as minister for women, he passes a few pro-woman bills, he'll vaccinate himself for the next one.
It's still fucking hilarious, though. Specially as his cabinet only has one female minister, when even as a proportion of those voted in, it would come close to three.
Well, with only one woman minister, you'd hardly want to waste one on women's affairs, would you?

Oh, and an amusing link.

[Zaune]

It's that time again!

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*sigh* I try really, really hard not throw this thing around lightly, especially on a forum where being mature and sensible and engaging your brain before -in a metaphorical sort of way- opening your big stupid mouth is actually appreciated. But sometimes there really is no better response, you know?

[Darkhorseman]

Well, I know this is out of left field ... but I have to say that Tonya/Tony probably knows more about women than I do!

The second dubious "claim to fame" that Tony's former uni years housemate made was that not only had she let the Mad Monk get a leg over .................... sorry, couldn't type while the shivers overtook me, but one of Tony's swimmers was better at finding ovum than Tony was at winning elections. However, while only one of these two claims at "fame" proved valid ... (Oh NO! Don't think about it ..... ugh ..... go to a safe place .....) that some woman let young Tony mount her ............ shiver ..... but none of his swimmers took the flag .... wonder if they wore speedos? .... hairy backed little buggers with speedos .... I may need counselling.

But the fact remains that Tony's wife did not leave on finding out that Tone was not a virgin when they first rubbed nasties. Point for that?

After that fact (and fiction) Tone did manage to put on a couple of girls. And to be fair, the girls have not copied the "Conservative Handbook of Embarrassing Dad" as written by Dubya Bush's daughters. So perhaps the Abbott girls are intelligent.

So if we tote up Tony/Tonya's score card -
1. Got away a sneaky one in a share house - 1 point for got a girl to ... oh you know!
2. Admitted to the sneaky one, possibly took a kick to the cods when Mother Abbott found out ... but she didn't take the house and the kids care of we might WELLLLL note Goff Whitlam and Lionel Murphy's compulsory financial castration laws and the Family Castration Court - AT LEAST another point.
3. Bought up two daughters who have NOT done everything in their power to make dad rue the day he ever sought public office - 1 point each perhaps?

So my point is, perhaps we are selling Tony short ... and as an ex-union delegate I have no reason to sing his praises ... but better, Minister for Women than Minister for Industrial Relations!

Sorry girls, he's all yours.

Oh, what's that you ask? My accumulated points ...
1 failed formal marriage,
several (about 5) long term but eventually failed partnerships,
quite a few "got my leg overs" that led no where and
a Dyson vacuum cleaner that one of them "had too have" which now sits in a corner and chuckles and sneers at me every time I walk past it ...

Yes, I would say that I am well into the Red on points.

[Korto]

Interesting.
Firstly,

But the fact remains that Tony's wife did not leave on finding out that Tone was not a virgin when they first rubbed nasties. Point for that?

She would leave him for having sex with another woman ten years before they were married, or likely even met, why? Commit violence upon him, why? Abbot's accused of being from the 1950's; but what century do you think his wife's from? Congratulations. He married a woman with more than two brain cells. Have a cookie.

More interesting, though, is that apparently you've signed up solely to make this post. I was expecting maybe the more politically interested Australian members to say something. Friendly, perhaps, WeeMad, although I haven't seen him online for ages, but you went through the trouble of signing up just to make that post.
Why? Is that an honest belief on your own time, or are you some kind of PR guy monitoring the net? If so, you have far too much time on your hands.

[Grumman]

Since no-one else is going to mention the Australian election (seriously, where is Ando these days, did he get his arse banned or something?)

I was waiting to find out whether Dropulich got into the senate or not (and it looks like not): A man whose entire policy statement is "Sports R Gud" and he was/was almost elected one of the senators for Western Australia.

[Zaune]

More interesting, though, is that apparently you've signed up solely to make this post. I was expecting maybe the more politically interested Australian members to say something. Friendly, perhaps, WeeMad, although I haven't seen him online for ages, but you went through the trouble of signing up just to make that post.
Why? Is that an honest belief on your own time, or are you some kind of PR guy monitoring the net? If so, you have far too much time on your hands.

A professional PR guy would know how to use an ellipsis properly and probably not sound quite as drunk.

Mind you, if I was this Tony Abbott character's spin-doctor I'd be drinking on the job as well.